Dr. Ruchika Goel is a Senior Medical Director, Corporate Medical Affairs at Vitalant National Office. She serves as a Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, at SIU School of Medicine and an adjunct faculty in the Department of Pathology, Division of Transfusion Medicine, at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Goel did her Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University and Transfusion Medicine Fellowship, at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell and New York Blood Center. Dr. Goel is actively engaged in research in Big Data and Novel Computational Methods in Hematology and Transfusion Medicine. She also serves as an invited consultant and subject matter expert for the NIH/NHLBI funded REDS-IV-P longitudinal studies. She is the current chair of the Pediatric Subgroup of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT). Dr. Goel has multiple accolades to her name including the AABB Fenwal Future Leader TM Scholarship Award, Paul J. Stranjford Young Investigator award by the ACLPS, BEST Collaborative Scott Murphy Lectureship, 40 under 40 award for exemplary clinical service and has also received international recognition with the ISBT Harold Gunsen fellowship and the Australian and New Zealand Blood Transfusion Society Presidential award. Dr. Goel has over 125 peer reviewed publications and book chapters to her name including key first author publications in some leading journals including JAMA, JAMA Surgery, Blood, Transfusion, Lancet Americas, and Vox Sanguinis and has been invited to lecture nationally and internationally on topics of her research focus.